A Varied Cultural Tasting Menu at Guild Hall This Week
Ballet, jazz, satire, film, and art will offer a cultural tasting menu at Guild Hall during the coming week. Ballet Hispanico, which sold out its performance last year, will return with “CARMEN.maquia,” a reimagining of Bizet’s tragic opera, on Saturday at 8 p.m. The performance, whose costumes and set designs evoke the paintings of Picasso, fuses contemporary dance with Spanish paso doble and flamenco. Tickets range in price from $20, $18 for members, to $60 and $58.
Guild Hall’s summer fashion series, On and Off the Runway, will take a new turn on Sunday morning at 11 with a screening of “Iris,” Albert Maysles’s film about Iris Apfel, for decades the flamboyant 93-year-old doyenne of the New York fashion world. After the screening, Pamela Fiori, former editor in chief of Town & Country, will interview Jennifer Ash Rudick, one of the film’s producers, and David Nugent, artistic director of the Hamptons International Film Festival. Tickets are $15 and $13; $75 and $50 with a V.I.P. reception.
Carrie Mae Weems, whose work over the past 25 years has investigated, in various mediums, family relationships, gender roles, the histories of racism, sexism, class, and political systems, will present a free lecture with video clips on Sunday at 3 p.m. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 2013, her work has been shown and collected worldwide.
The Pollock-Krasner House’s annual John H. Marburger III Memorial Lecture will take place at Guild Hall later that afternoon, at 5, when Lisa Immordino Vreeland will present her film “Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict,” based on the biography of the Guggenheim heiress who was a central figure in the modern art world. A conversation with the filmmaker will follow the screening. Tickets are $10, $8 for members of Guild Hall and/or the Pollock-Krasner House.
David Sedaris, a humorist, writer, and radio contributor, will bring his sardonic wit and incisive social commentary to Guild Hall on Monday evening at 8. His books include “Naked,” “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” and “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.” A book signing will follow the talk. Tickets range from $50, $48 for members, or $150 and $145 for premium seating.
On Tuesday evening at 7:30, Peter and Will Anderson, saxophone virtuosos and identical twins, will be joined by Alex Wintz, a guitarist, in a concert of American songbook hits, New Orleans jazz, classical adaptations, and their own original compositions. Premium seats are $40 and general orchestra tickets cost $25. Students get in for $15.